Abstract: A blood testing tool is provided, which separates blood cells and can collect blood plasma or blood serum with a high yield. The blood testing tool includes an asymmetric porous membrane with a pore size distribution in which an average pore size varies to be reduced continuously or discontinuously in a thickness direction. The porous membrane includes a blood supply portion, a development portion, and a blood-cell blocking portion formed between the blood supply portion and the development portion and pores in the blood cell blocking portion include only pores through which blood cells cannot pass. When blood is supplied to one side with larger pores of the blood supply portion, the blood moves in a direction parallel to a surface of the porous membrane by a capillary phenomenon, but only blood plasma or blood serum moves into the development portion to develop.

Abstract: A sample analysis device is provided in which a target component to be analyzed is prevented from being contaminated by a sample itself, which can be formed in an appropriate size, and which has excellent operability. In a sample analysis device 1 in which a sample is to be held in a porous sheet 13, supporting films 11 and 12 are stuck on front and rear faces of the porous sheet 13, respectively, and a sample supply hole 14 is formed in a part of the supporting films.

Abstract: Amounts of components in a specimen can be analyzed with excellent quantitativity. The analysis includes: measuring an amount of a component to be analyzed in a specimen; measuring an amount of a standard component present originally and homeostatically in the specimen other than the component to be analyzed; determining the amount of the specimen from the amount of the standard component thus measured and a known concentration of the standard component in the specimen; and determining a concentration of the component to be analyzed in the specimen from the amount of the specimen thus determined and the amount of the component to be analyzed thus measured. The quantitative analysis of the present invention allows a component to be analyzed to be measured with high quantitativity as shown in FIG. 1.

Abstract: Amounts of components in a specimen can be analyzed with excellent quantitativity. The analysis includes: measuring an amount of a component to be analyzed in a specimen; measuring an amount of a standard component present originally and homeostatically in the specimen other than the component to be analyzed; determining the amount of the specimen from the amount of the standard component thus measured and a known concentration of the standard component in the specimen; and determining a concentration of the component to be analyzed in the specimen from the amount of the specimen thus determined and the amount of the component to be analyzed thus measured. The quantitative analysis of the present invention allows a component to be analyzed to be measured with high quantitativity as shown in FIG. 1.

Abstract: A blood testing tool is provided, which separates blood cells and can collect blood plasma or blood serum with a high yield. The blood testing tool includes an asymmetric porous membrane with a pore size distribution in which an average pore size varies to be reduced continuously or discontinuously in a thickness direction. The porous membrane includes a blood supply portion, a development portion, and a blood-cell blocking portion formed between the blood supply portion and the development portion and pores in the blood cell blocking portion include only pores through which blood cells cannot pass. When blood is supplied to one side with larger pores of the blood supply portion, the blood moves in a direction parallel to a surface of the porous membrane by a capillary phenomenon, but only blood plasma or blood serum moves into the development portion to develop.

Abstract: Using optical measurement data obtained from a light-diffusive object the percentage absorption %ABS of the object is calculated, and using one constant or a multiple constant n.sub.i (.sub.i =1,2, . . .) the spectrum waveform is calculated according the equation as follows:S(.lambda.)=exp [n.multidot.%ABS (.multidot.)]or the equation as follows:S(.lambda.)=.SIGMA.exp [n.sub.i .multidot.%ABS (.multidot.)]whereby a spectrum waveform nearly equal to the spectrum waveform of the inherent percentage absorption of the light-diffusive object can be obtained. By carrying out a spectrum analysis of a light-diffusive object by means the spectrum waveform S(.lambda.), the components of the object can be analyzed with high reproducibility and reliability without slicing or shattering the object.

Abstract: The present invention utilizes the difference of light reception data generated based on the difference in length of substantial optical diffusion paths between a single light receiving point and a plurality of irradiation points, or between a plurality of light receiving points and a single irradiation point. According to the present invention, the inside information of substance based on the difference in length of the optical diffusion paths, may be measured. Even though measurements are made under different measuring conditions as to the part to be measured, the measuring time, etc., there may be obtained reliable measured data of the inside information with good reproducibility.